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Is Randomness Really Random?
Dr. Robert A. Herrmann, Professor of Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy ^
| 2002
| Robert A. Herrmann, Ph.D.
Posted on 01/31/2003 11:43:00 AM PST by CalConservative
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To: longshadow
Placemarker (randomly placed).
To: PatrickHenry
Why doesn't he limit himself to the evidence, by saying: Evolution has always insisted that it hinges on random processes, random mutations, random appearance of species, etc.. What we have is another brick in the evolutionist wall tumbling down. To save their stupid theory evolutionists are now trying to claim that there is some sort of direction to evolution. This is another 180 degree turn forced upon evolutionists by the real scientific facts. It is also another example of evolution being forced to change due to scientific discoveries instead of leading the way to scientific discoveries.
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01/31/2003 8:05:44 PM PST
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gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: longshadow
I've read Dr. Hermann's stuff before. He makes little sense. He also misstates Kac's stuff. Kac points out that things in mathematics do act as if by chance. For example Kac's monograph, "Statistical Independence" has a chapter "Primes Play a Game of Chance."
Dr. Herrmann also confuses ex-ante prediction of photon behavior with the fact that we can write an ex-post description of such behavior. Dr. Herrman's identification of the outcome of the scattering experiment with a real number in no way allows one to compute ahead of time which number one gets.
He also makes no comment on the problem of quantum measurement.
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01/31/2003 9:43:53 PM PST
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Doctor Stochastic
(Every minute a man dies and one and one-sixteenth is born.)
To: Doctor Stochastic
He also makes no comment on the problem of quantum measurement.You physicists are so cute with your little concerns! I'd call them "real world" concerns, but they aren't really, are they?
I say just take solace in the Central Limit Theorem, grab a drink and enjoy the view.
To: AmishDude
I say just take solace in the Central Limit Theorem, grab a drink and enjoy the view. What? Whay would you limit yourself to the only real theory in Statistics?
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02/01/2003 2:19:54 PM PST
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balrog666
(If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain)
To: balrog666
Well, after the CLT, it's all just details, really. :)
To: AmishDude
Only if the Glivenko-Cantelli theorm is a "detail."
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02/01/2003 9:27:07 PM PST
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Doctor Stochastic
(Every minute a man dies and one and one-sixteenth is born.)
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